The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption on Wednesday conducted raids on different properties linked with former Tamil Nadu minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader P Thangamani, reported PTI.
The raids are related to a first information report lodged by the anti-corruption agency against Thangamani, his wife T Santhi and son T Dharanidharan. The three have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
The agency has alleged that the accused persons acquired disproportionate assets worth about Rs 4.85 crore between May 2016 and March 2020. Thangamani was Tamil Nadu’s electricity minister between 2016 and 2021 under the then AIADMK government.
His son Dharanidharan’s firm Murugan Earth Movers was found to exist only on papers and was used as a cover for illegal assets acquired by Thangamani, the agency has alleged, according to The Hindu. The agency also alleged that Santhi helped Thangamani and Dharanidharan hide the alleged disproportionate assets by filing income tax returns even though she did not have any known source of income.
“It is further suspected that A-1 [Thangamani] and A-2 [Dharanidharan] have acquired many more assets which are disproportionate to his known sources of income and kept in the name of their in-laws, relatives and associates in...
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